The Press., 1887-02-10

daily in newspaneE edlsoFsAM on the labor question.
 n now seems probable that on the train wrecked at White River Junction there were, including train hands, 91 persons, of rs&2s2 S6 were killed and S6 injured.
 ONE genius has invented an armor plate through which no projectile can be forced {; another projectiis that no armor can stop. Of course each invention practically nullffes the usefulness of the other.
 IT is the practice in this state for the peo- pie, through thair Legislature. to define eer- tain duties for shs courts and judges, and then to aalect competent men to tiil the judge ships When one accepts proffered judge ship, and thea nnds the duties prescribed to bs too irksome, the proper course for him is, nct.to infuenee Legislation to tighten his du- tics, but Go resign, or at Aaast decline re- eIsotion.
 TMR strikes continue, and are continually breaking out in new placSsEr' The New York papers continue to assure us that things are settling down to wonted channels, but the strikers tell g different story. But it IS eyi- dent that there are plenty of men who are eager to fill the placesaofs the strikers, that these are so abundant that the press of the city desires to stay the incoming mass of la borers who are rushing into the supposed vacuum, increasing the mass of the unem- ployed. Those who desire to employ find plenty of raw material, but the work they are asked to do requires little time to secure proficiency. If the strike continues, how ever, the new men will soon have become used to the routine duties of longshoremen and coal handlers. This will leave the strik- CTS out. and the city will have them on their hands, unemployed and penniless not a pleasing prospect, surely. It will take a long time for things to become fully readjust- ed.
 SHOCKING is 8 mild word to apply to the appalling disaster of last Saturday morning. No railroad casualty of like magnitude was ever known in New England, very few on this continent. The cause is unknown, but prob ably no reasonable amount of human fore sight could have prevented the wrecking of the train. It was passing over the bridge at speed of about 8 miles an hour, the rule re- quiring slowing down to not over 15 miles an hour over bridges. But the loss of life by fire iSsanotKer terrible warning against the present mode of warming end lighting cars. Invariably it is fire that is the chief horror of a railroad wreck It is horrible to think of the condition of the passengers, little injured, but pinned down in the wreck, forced to see z.dsath surely approaching in the terrible form of burning. The lesson should set railroad t4sf6cials tpsdegising safe methods. It will set state legislatures. about that business. Three such iess6fs within -3neN Nnionth should be sufs fcient.
 The 1ongshore strikers at New York are beginning to realize that they are beaten and some of them are disposed to vent their wrath and disappointment upon the new men working in their places. ~Rnt the strong fnrce :of police along the river front has 80 far preserved order. A gang of six strikers, however, managed to catch 8 non-union man Tuesday in West street and gave him terrible beating be- fore any policeman appeared. Lots of the old men are hourly applying for work on the pieEs and many of them are employed. Plenty more would gladly take their old places who are kept idle by feaa of N., lence. Many others, who could not 50: back their old places, have gone to docks where they were not known and secured work. All the companies were getting along nicely yesterday and handling about the usual amount of freight. The Fall
 
 to-day. There has been much talk of arbitrat;ng the difficulties, but tie compa- nies see nothing to arbitrate Tie general feeling Expressed by all can be given iA the words of one msh who said: ssWhat is there to arbitrate, and who are we to ar bitrate with Our men quit work without salY cause yhateYers we have filled their places with new men fully as competent. EafEnaJp part He0uld; not dismiss one of fhe new men to make room for the strikers. In the spring, when our business increases, &here may be chance for some of the old men to get back Annmber of old hands .ofnrsdsto resumes4york on. the Pennsyl- vaniR gas coal company's dock at Matta- wan, N. J., yesterday, but were ordered to leave, as there was no room for them. The strikers all along the Now Jersey shore are about disheartened, d,-N ?. dispatch
 Courant Tha. .president has now to 'se- loCt the comm iSsioners under the inter- state commerce bill. He can kill the whole thing by putting in lot of cranks, end equally can he kill it by putting in a lot iof railrosd tools. Tie piace wants character, brains, and independence. Worn out railroad presidents, lobbyists, opefators, ,and tkes slfkeodght to 1Besdropped out of consideration. If the president takes man from New England, Arthur T. Hadley is 80 far ahead of others that, if be will take the place, there. should be little doubt of it's being offered him.
 Of the many pathetic incidents to the dreadful accident on the Vermont Central road the most touching is the fate of the little child four years old, that cannot give its name or its home, or any clue to it's identity, while those who were caring for it have been burned to cinders in the wreck. m
 WHAT TRUE MERrT WILL Do -The un- precedented sale of Boschee's German Syrup within few. years, has astonished the world. Et 8s,Nfkh6ut doubt the safest and best remedy syer discovered for the speedy and efectuaI cure of Coughs, Colds and the seYerest Lung Iroubles H acts on an entirely different from the usual prescriptions given by Physicians, as it does not dry up 8 Cough md 1e&fe the diaease still in the system, but A..- Al